Instructions: There are two (2) topic areas listed below that are designed to measure your knowledge level specific to learning outcome (LO 3) shown in your course syllabus. Please provide appropriate responses in essay form for both. In most cases the topic area has several components. Each must be addressed to properly satisfy requirements.
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Pay attention to what you are being asked to do (see Grading Rubric below). For example, to describe does not mean to list, but to tell about or illustrate in more than two or three sentences, providing appropriate arguments for your responses using theories discussed in our text. Be sure to address all parts of the topic question as most have multiple parts. A verifiable current event (less than 4 years old) relevant to at least one of the topics you respond to is a fundamental component of your quiz as well. You cannot use information from the text book or any book/article by the author of the text book as a current event. Make sure that your reference has a date of publication. For each chapter quiz and final quiz you are required to find and include at least one reference and reference citation to a current event less than 4 years old (a reference with no date (n.d.) is not acceptable) in answer to at least one question. This requires a reference citation in the text of your answer and a reference at the end of the question to which the reference applies. You must include some information obtained from the reference in your answer. The references must be found on the internet and you must include a URL in your reference so that the reference can be verified.
Based on what you have learned in this chapter and using appropriate components, properly construct an argument to: (1) support or refute the view that all undergraduate students should be required to take a course in cyberethics; and (2) apply the seven steps (in Section 3.8) to your argument. Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your rationale in support of your responses (comprehension)
2. Using appropriate components construct an argument for or against the view that privacy protection should be improved in e-commerce transactions. Next evaluate your arguments against the rules for valid, inductive, and fallacious arguments. Does your argument contain any of the common or “informal” fallacies discussed in Section 3.9? If so, elaborate. Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your rationale in support of your responses (knowledge).
3. You have been working for the XYZ Computer Corporation as an entry-level software engineer since you graduated from college last May. You have done very well so far; you are respected by management, well liked by your fellow employees, and have been assigned to a team of engineers that has consistently worked on the most critical and valued projects and contracts that XYZ Computer Corporation has secured. Their most recent contract is for a United States defense project involving the Missile Defense System, and again, you have been assigned to the team that will develop software for this project. However, you are staunchly opposed to the project objectives, so you ask to be reassigned. Your supervisor and coworkers, as well as upper management, are disappointed to learn of your strong feelings about this project. You are asked to reconsider your views, and you are promised a bonus and a substantial pay increase if you agree to work on this project during the next year. You also discover from a colleague that refusing to work on this project would greatly diminish your career advancement at XYZ and may even make you vulnerable to future layoffs. To compound matters, you and your spouse are expecting your first child in about three months and you recently purchased a home. (a) What would you do (elaborate)? (b) Describe the process of ethical deliberation that you would undertake in trying to resolve this dilemma. Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses (knowledge, comprehension).
4. According to Gotterbarn some of the criticism leveled against professional codes might be eliminated if we think of them as serving three important, but distinct, functions. Name and discuss them. Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your response knowledge).
CSCI 251 Introduction to Info Security, Law, and Ethics
Chapter 3 Quiz
Chapter 3 – Quiz 3
1. Based on what you have learned in this chapter and using appropriate components, properly construct an argument to (1) support or refute the view that all undergraduate students should be required to take a course in cyberethics; and (2) analyze your argument to see if it is either valid or invalid. (a) If it is valid, determine whether it is also sound. (b) If it is invalid, determine whether it is inductive or fallacious.
Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your rationale in support of your responses
(comprehension)
After completion of the first three chapters, I believe it is mandatory for undergraduate students to take a course related to cyberethics. Most undergraduate students are new to their university, they are juvenile and fresh so, they are capable of grasping the new material more quickly and efficiently than the others. We know the computer has been a basic need in our lives. So, I believe it is necessary to have basic knowledge about ethical values like being moral in our decision and also can focus on improving their quality of life understanding harmony and modern law. We do a lot of activities such as reading, surfing the internet, watching movies are computer-dependent. Also, every university provides computer-based education. Though everybody knows how to operate a computer, they don’t know about its ethics and importance. In present conditions, cyber ethics is important because it will provide basic ethical values of using a computer such as copyright, software piracy, and plagiarism. Additionally, it provides us adequate knowledge to analyze and support any action that we do.
Having adequate knowledge on cyber ethic helps students understand how they could establish ethical standards in a professional field that is well defined by rapidly evolving technology where its technological consequences and impact of ethical technology cannot be known in the time frame in which standards must be established (Artz 2005). So, to be capable of handling such a challenging situation, ethics classes are necessary. When the student graduate, if they have knowledge of ethics law, they could work on the real world knowing the ethical rights and wrongs. They can ethically decide what might be fruitful for the society and what things are hampering it. Thus, these arguments make this statement valid and sound.
2. Using appropriate components construct an argument for or against the view that privacy protection should be improved in e-commerce transactions. Next evaluate your arguments against the rules for valid, inductive, and fallacious arguments. Does your argument contain any of the common or “informal” fallacies discussed in Section 3.9? If so, elaborate.
Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your rationale in support of your responses
(knowledge)
The buying and selling of goods and transferring money through digital communication means via the internet can be referred to as e-commerce. Digital communication is an open-source of the internet which is the potential means to criminal activities like identity theft, money laundering or stealing of personal and financial information. Such a crime can bring the crisis to an individual’s social and financial status. Most of these crimes are committed by hackers and criminals. That’s why privacy protection should improvise on e-commerce so that no one could steal any sort of information from an individual or an organization.
Nowadays most of the activities are carried out through e-commerce like shopping, making appointments, etc. If a business has a secure way of providing e-commerce then the business is likely to bloom otherwise these online businesses are vulnerable to many crimes and fraud. They are a lot of piracy issues, copyright issues, and trust issues that should be maintained for e-commerce to provided customer’s privacy. We can take the example of uber, sony where databases of the user were stolen. Therefore, it makes a real and valid argument. This argument is not inductive as they can assume that there is no other facility around the third world and there is no chance for e-commerce being in danger. This argument is not the fallacious case. All of this is a valid argument and this concept can be applied where the system is available.
Reference
Artz, J. (2005). Addressing the central problem in cyberethics through stories. Retrieved from http://ebooks.narotama.ac.id/files/Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology (2nd Edition)/Addressing the Central Problem in Cyber Ethics through Stories.
3..You have been working for the XYZ Computer Corporation as an entry-level software engineer since you graduated from college last May. You have done very well so far; you are respected by management, well liked by your fellow employees, and have been assigned to a team of engineers that has consistently worked on the most critical and valued projects and contracts that XYZ Computer Corporation has secured. Their most recent contract is for a United States defense project involving the Missile Defense System, and again, you have been assigned to the team that will develop software for this project. However, you are staunchly opposed to the project objectives, so you ask to be reassigned. Your supervisor and coworkers, as well as upper management, are disappointed to learn of your strong feelings about this project. You are asked to reconsider your views, and you are promised a bonus and a substantial pay increase if you agree to work on this project during the next year. You also discover from a colleague that refusing to work on this project would greatly diminish your career advancement at XYZ and may even make you vulnerable to future layoffs. To compound matters, you and your spouse are expecting your first child in about three months and you recently purchased a home. (a) What would you do (elaborate)? (b) Describe the process of ethical deliberation that you would undertake in trying to resolve this dilemma.
Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses
(knowledge, comprehension)
I would take up the project and continue my career working for XYZ Computer Corpoaration. If I leave the project and the company, my whole career will have a negative impact. Also, we are expecting a baby soon and has just bought a new house, I can’t expect to lose my job.
Although I am willing to work for the project, I can’t still ignore all the wrongdoings that is happening around the company. For my future safety purposes, I would definitely keep records for all the work regarding the project and also find the outcome of my project. Keeping records can ensure my safety in the future so nobody could blame for the wrong consequences. To work for the project even though I know some wrongdoings is happening is ethically wrong. But if we ignore the situation, then the decision I made would be ehtically right but wrong socially. The consequences for this will have an impact to all people of the society.
As the conclusion, all the decisions cannot be totally right or wrong. If it is right from one point of view, then it might be wrong from other part. So, the decision I will be taking is ethically wrong but is beneficial from me individually and my family.
4..According to Gotterbarn some of the criticism leveled against professional codes might be eliminated if we think of them as serving three important, but distinct, functions. Name and discuss them.
Please elaborate (beyond a yes or no answer) and provide your “theoretical” rationale in support of your responses
knowledge)
The three distinct functions the Gotterbarn suggested are Codes of ethics, Codes of conduct and Codes of practice. Code of ethics are those code that mainly focuses on social issues. It encourages the people to do right thing for the society. Code of conduct are more focuses on the professional oriented than the general society. It teaches the people about their behavior and attituded that they need to keep up to their professioin. Lastly, codes of practice differ for different works and company. All the codes that are listed above applies differently for different work and profession. But all these codes set some rules and regulation for respective profession.
In my opinion, these sets of codes are necessary for each and every professional career. With these codes, I believe the profession will be better. Ethical codes are worthless without the practice, conduct, and vice versa.To make codes of ethics strong it has to follow the code of conduct, if not, then there comes the code of conduct.
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